Prof. George Carey, Rest in Peace

ISI mourns the loss of George W. Carey, one of the foremost interpreters of the American political tradition and a mentor to countless students through a half century of teaching.

A longtime professor of government at Georgetown University, Carey first made his name in the 1960s through his close working relationship with political scientist Willmoore Kendall, a collaboration that produced several articles and a seminal book, The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition (1970). Throughout his long and productive career, Carey ably defended the American constitutional order bequeathed by the Founding Fathers from those he saw as bent on its destruction.